EXACTLY!

I don't know what the hell's going on with time, but I was thinking about last Valentine's Day, and I swear I have done nothing of note in a whole year.

Dave Grohl has been doing the talk show and podcast circuit to promote his documentary. That made me think about when Nevermind came out, which then caused me to examine the albums I consider most influential on me. They all came out between 1989 and 1993.

Whaaaat.

I did an intro for the band where I reminisced about seeing the guitarist play in 1998...and I realized that the kids to whom I was introducing were not alive in 1998.

We ARE old! We're the old people who are going to be talking about back in the 1990s and sound like creaky rocking chairs to all the young pups!

The Nineties were just yesterday, Liese! Garth, Grunge and Gangsta!

I'm just grateful for the era that let me keep wearing the same dirty jeans and flannel shirts over band tshirts that I already was and call it fashion. It was a very comfy era.

Did I post here about the poster on my inside building door that went up on Thursday (aka Valentine's Day)? It says, "I LIKE YOU." There was another one in the stairs that says, "STAY GOLDEN." On my way to do laundry just now, I saw the one on an apartment door that says, "LET'S MAKE OUT." Cute!

On the downside, someone else was doing laundry already. Hmph.

Did you make out with him/her?

openly squeamish about lady bit (sheesh, he's a gay man, of course he doesn't love vaginas! Why would anyone expect him to??)

I'm not getting why male homosexual = vagina squeamish, but more important to me is the "openly" bit, for a guy who positions himself as a voice of reason about sex and sexuality, I'm not sure why +50% of the population would go to him for any, if he's going to be publicly negative about their sex organs.

The googling I've done since I asked the question has turned up a lot of complaints about how he treats trans* people as well. So far I'm not getting a majority positive vibe, and it's not conservatives or homophobes who are the ones criticising him either.

I turned on the TV to a radically saccharine Selena Gomez rom com, and this is the first I've seen her in anything (or watched Leighton Meester for more than 5 minutes, I think), and she's a gaping void of charisma. That Disney machine sure is something.

It's a rich/poor fairy tale type story, and one of the things that a character considers for rich people only are dimmer switches. Have I been living a life of unexamined luxury and privilege this whole time, not having noticed the dearth of progressive lighting among the poor? It ends up being a symbol of luxury that one of the characters achieved, and I really think she should have said a nice car instead of a $10 item from Lowe's. You've gotta dream bigger, girl.